- Title
- An association between epichrysomallines and eurytomids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in southern African fig wasp communities
- Creator
- Compton, Stephen G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 1993
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452060
- Identifier
- vital:75100
- Identifier
- https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA10213589_42
- Description
- Figs, the fruits of Ficus species (Moraceae), support diverse communities/assemblages of fig wasps belonging mainly to the families Agaonidae and Eurytomidae (Boucek et al. 1981; Compton and Hawkins, in press). Southern African fig wasp communities are composed mainly of species associated with the ovules of the plants, either as ovule-gallers or their parasitoids, although some species also gall fig primordia or the walls of the figs (Compton and van Noort 1992). The trophic relationships of only a few fig wasp species have been determined (Compton and van Noort 1992), but these suggest that the various subfamilies of fig wasps are generally consistent in that they contain either gallers or parasitoids. Amongst the gall-forming species are the Epichrysomallinae and Agaoninae (Agaonidae)(Boucek 1988). Eurytomids provide an exception to this general uniformity of larval feeding methods. For example, Sycophila Walker is a major genus of fig wasp eurytomids which includes species that are either gall-formers or parasitoids (Claridge 1959; Boucek 1988).
- Format
- 3 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Entomology, Compton, S.G., 1993. An association between epichrysomallines and eurytomids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in southern African fig wasp communities. African Entomology, 1(1), p.123, African Entomology volume 1 number 1 1 3 1993 2254-8854
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Compton, Stephen G (Prof)
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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